What is currently being researched, and what is currently prohibited in the field of cloning? What are some of the benefits and disadvantages of cloning. In other words, what are some of the scientific incentives for cloning, and the ethical dilemmas associated with them?
In addition, if you have come across any interesting articles in regard to the subject matter, I would be grateful if you cared to share the link.
2006-12-16 15:06:29 · 6 answers · asked by my nickname 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Most cloning done these days is in Stem Cells. Mainly because of the great need in expanding the lines and new testing.
The main problem with cloning its been discovered is that cells have an internal clock. If you take a sample from a 30 year old person and cloned it, the result would be a new organ or person, that while new, would have cells that believed they were 30 years old! So, if cell samples are not saved from newborns and children then cloning will quickly go no-where! Only by learning to reset this clock will cloning ever take off, after all, why grow a new heart for someone at 80 if the new heart is 80 too? Of course if the old one is worn out, whose going to complain? I'd chance it for a few more months.
After all, that "infant clone" at 10 years old would at a cell level be actually 40 years old and start to get arthritis and other middle-aged diseases! And their only 10! THIS is exactly what happened to Dolly the Sheep. They cloned her from her 4-5 year old "mother" and she started developing aging disease at 1-2 years old, proving that her cells were actually already old. She was actually the same age as when the sample was taken from her mother. She lived a "natural life-span" but was in bad condition physically.
2006-12-16 15:15:51 · answer #1 · answered by AdamKadmon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just type "cloning" into google.com or wikipedia.org
In short, cloning technology is such that only 1 out of 100 embryos survives, and even then, they tend to be weak and die before their time, so cloning humans is generally banned.
Advantage of cloning is checking which traits are nature or nurture, and making more of "best" animal in the species.
2006-12-16 15:11:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-09-03 12:45:07 · answer #3 · answered by yarrington 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Plants and animals have been cloned for years
Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1996
But Wiki has way more info
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloning
2006-12-16 15:16:39 · answer #4 · answered by kate 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cloning speculation is SOOO 90's.
2006-12-16 15:14:12 · answer #5 · answered by Greg 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
technology is increasing.organism developed by cloning is against nature.we can create some endangered species and we should not create man
2006-12-16 15:16:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋